Business: Happy families for business.A GROUP of Scottish business families have joined forces to offer advice and support to family firms. The Scottish Family Business Association aim to help family businesses resolve the issues that often lead to their downfall. These include control and ownership, succession, wealth distribution, conflicting ambitions and strategies, divorce and how to integrate non-family employees including spouses and in-laws. SFBA SFBA San Francisco Bay Area SFBA Students for Barrier-Free Access SFBA San Francisco Beekeepers' Association chief executive Martin Stepek says: "We think we can help to dramatically improve their chances of survival by working with business families on the likely problems they're they're Contraction of they are. they're be going to face." The association was started by firms including Gordon & MacPhail, the Elgin malt whisky malt whisky Noun whisky made from malted barley Noun 1. malt whisky - whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still specialists founded in 1895, and 134-year-old Falkirk bakers R Mathieson & Sons. Glasgow firm Little's Chauffeurs, one of the largest family owned chauffeur drive companies in Europe, are also taking part in the venture. |
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